A.cover: 15 drawings Colin McCahon December ’51 to May ’52; title page: for Charles Brasch from Colin McCahon 1952; b. The cup; c. This is a cold land; d. Light candles against the oncoming dark; f. The word was made flesh and dwelt amongst us.…
16 in The Jack & Ethel McCahon gift to the Hocken LibraryMcCahon writes: "Catherine Anne McCahon, 6 weeks old today, Thursday, May 17 Blue Black ink drawing. Signed Colin McCahon. 7" x 5""
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: C.McC; u.l. in pencil: Te Whiti; u.c. in pencil: As I pass the border, how can I forbear from turning back my head, Hsu Lan [jottings throughout].
Lower left (l.l.) in ballpoint pen: C. McCahon, 1956; l.c. in ballpoint pen: Final version; u.l. in charcoal: The Glass Menagerie; verso in pencil & red ballpoint pen: [production memoranda]
Lower left (l.l.) in ballpoint pen: A gentleman calls; l.c. in ballpoint pen: The Glass Menagerie; l.r. in ballpoint pen: C.McCahon 1956; verso in pencil: door [unfinished pencil sketch]
Lower left (l.l.) in ballpoint pen: The Glass Menageries 1956; l.c. in ballpoint pen: C. McCahon; through image in ballpoint pen: [various inscriptions]
Lower left (l.l.) in ballpoint pen: C. McCahon; l.c. in ballpoint pen: The Glass Menagerie 1956; u.c. in ballpoint pen: Cyclorama [variously inscribed throughout]
inverted lower left with brush: McCahon; upper centre with brush: Peer Gynt; lower centre with brush: by Henrik Ibsen; verso: [pencil & watercolour landscape sketch]
Originally used for the 1947 exhibition in Dunedin, but presumably modified with Listener text for the 1948 exhibition in the Wellington Public Library.
Margin u.r. in pencil: 1947; margin l.r. in pencil: Colin McCahon; on mount: Rodney, I promised you these quite some time ago as they really belong with your painting. I don’t think they are of particular value as works of art but possibly are of…
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: Otago Peninsula landscapes. Colin McCahon; through image in pencil: [gridlines]; on mount: Rodney, I promised you these quite some time ago as they really belong with your painting. I don’t think they are of particular…